The GOP: Past, Present & Future

Below are links to a couple of long reads that are well-worth your time.  Both are histories of the GOP from Goldwater forward, one from an ideologically liberal perspective, one from a conservative.  The first tracks the alienation of first blacks, then Hispanics from the GOP fold.  The second examines how populism managed to take over GOP and displace conservatism.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/10/trump_and_the_gop_are_alienating_latinos_the_way_they_once_alienated_black.html

http://freebeacon.com/columns/crisis-conservative-intellectual/